Ripgrep Alternatives

ripgrep reviews and mentions

• Don't use musl if you care about performance
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Aug 2026

  It's not really disputed since musl without mimalloc has a 144% overhead, so most of the performance issues do indeed come from the allocator, by a pretty large margin (~85% of it). Not only that, but some of the "other code" performance hit might still come from the allocator: when you set a global allocator on the Rust side, musl still uses its own allocator internally (as demonstrated by https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/3494).

  And the compounding issue is that the allocator issues get significantly worse as parallelism increases, as the allocator is serial, so as concurrency increases so does the impact of the allocator, which is not the case for most of the "regular slow" code (of musl), those have a relatively constant overhead per thread.

• RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Aug 2026

  > Or does ripgrep only override Rust's global allocator?

  That one, as you can see in the code linked above, it only does rust-level overriding as that was where musl's allocator was found to impact ripgrep (https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/commit/03bf37ff4a29361...)

• Biff is a command line datetime Swiss army knife
  9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 May 2026

  I'm the author of Biff. I just wanted to leave a really cool example of something that Biff can do that I _think_ is kinda hard to do otherwise. (And also, I want to make an assertion about it and I hope this will lead to me being wrong and learning something new.)

  The use case is: "I want to see a list of all files in a repository, sorted in ascending order of when it was most recently changed according to source control. I also want to highlight the time with color, make it be in local time and format it in my own bespoke way using strftime." Here's the full command (run from the root of https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep):

      $ git ls-files \

• Ripgrep AI Policy
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 May 2026
• How to escape note-taking lock-in with plain markdown and git
  2 projects | dev.to | 18 May 2026

  For full-text search, ripgrep is faster than any in-app search I've used:

• Toward a more POSIX-Friendly PowerShell experience
  22 projects | dev.to | 18 May 2026

  ripgrep – A fancier version of grep commonly used by coding tools.

• 5 CLI Tools I Use to Keep Terminal Workflows Less Annoying
  16 projects | dev.to | 7 May 2026

  After finding files, I usually need to search inside them. For that, ripgrep, usually called rg, is my default.

• Tell HN: Fastmod Is Nice
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Apr 2026

  Ah yes... its `-E`.

  But fastmod, which is mentioned in at the end of https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/FAQ.md#search-and-replace is surprisingly good, both in terms of performance/ux and compatibility.

  You just:

    fastmod -m 'something I need to (change|break)' '$1 is inevitable'

• How to setup Terminal tools for Mac
  24 projects | dev.to | 7 Apr 2026

  BurntSushi/ripgrep

• I Ditched VS Code for a Terminal. My RAM Thanked Me.
  4 projects | dev.to | 24 Mar 2026

  ripgrep needs no introduction. It's grep, but fast. Respects .gitignore, searches recursively by default, and returns results before you finish blinking.

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